bsnmpd & BGP full view

Hartmut Brandt hartmut.brandt at dlr.de
Fri Dec 26 10:54:45 UTC 2008


Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Petri Helenius wrote:
>
>   
>>> In any case it should re-read the kernel table only every 10 minutes
>>> and in the mean time monitor the routing socket to update its copy
>>> of the table. If of course someone is doing a lot of updates on
>>>       
>> Why does it have to re-read the table periodically if it gets the
>> updates anyway?
>>     
>
> To protect from bugs that may lead to missed updates on rtsocket, I guess.
>   
Yes. I was not sure how well this works. In any case if there is too 
many traffic from the kernel to the daemon the socket
buffer may drop messages.

Give me a day and I send you a patch so that you can tune the re-read 
interval and the routing socket monitoring.

harti


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